This author wrote "Where'er Thou Sail'st Who Sailed with Me" to commemorate the death of his older
 brother John from lockjaw, though he quipped "My life has been the poem I would have writ" to explain
 his meager poetry output. The narrator of another work is tempted to kill and eat a woodchuck and
This author wrote "Where'er Thou Sail'st Who Sailed with Me" to commemorate the death of his older
 brother John from lockjaw, though he quipped "My life has been the poem I would have writ" to explain
 his meager poetry output. The narrator of another work is tempted to kill and eat a woodchuck and
 reluctantly drinks some dirty water from the well of John Field in "Baker Farm." He coined the term
 "Realometer" in another section of that work in which he quotes Cowper to proclaim, "I am monarch of all
 I survey." This author's best-known work urges you to "simplify, simplify, simplify" and starts with
 sections titled "Economy" and "Where I Lived, and What I Lived For." For 10 points, identify this
 American author who described his stay in the woods in Walden.
This author wrote "Where'er Thou Sail'st Who Sailed with Me" to commemorate the death of his older
 brother John from lockjaw, though he quipped "My life has been the poem I would have writ" to explain
 his meager poetry output.
Henry David {Thoreau}